Hacker News with Generative AI: Current Events

Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed (scientificamerican.com)
No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately.

Psychology, Social Media, News Consumption, Current Events

757 points by headalgorithm 16 days ago | 905 comments

Ask HN: Why are we all pretending everything is normal? (ycombinator.com)
I know we’re supposed to be tech focused but I see no posts regarding the situation at large. No tech, no innovation can really grow or come about if this keeps going. Those of us who have grown up with relative freedom and the room to innovate owe it to those coming up to do something? The system isn’t perfect, but what is happening will make it worse. What can be done?

Politics, Society, Social Commentary, Current Events

32 points by bigmattystyles 20 days ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Good articles or books to understand the current zeitgeist? (ycombinator.com)
My classical liberal outlook (with maybe a propensity to support higher quality regulations) has been seriously rocked over the past few years culminating of course in the elections last year and the outlooks of elections to come (Trump, FPÖ, AfD, etc.)

Politics, Social Commentary, Current Events, Political Philosophy

11 points by bdhe 30 days ago | 16 comments

Neveragain.tech (neveragain.tech)
The tech industry's silence this time around is deafening.

Tech Industry, Social Commentary, Silence, Current Events

4 points by Kye 30 days ago | 0 comments

US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week (theregister.com)
We all know the US's incoming president, Donald Trump, has gone off-script in a way that is almost comical. Gulf of America? Make Greenland great again? Taking over the Panama Canal?

Politics, US Politics, International Relations, Current Events

23 points by rbanffy 39 days ago | 76 comments

The Players on the Eve of Destruction (noahpinion.blog)
The insanity of war has returned to our world.

Politics, War, Current Events

6 points by ctoth 50 days ago | 0 comments

Cory Doctorow wrote a prescient novella about health insurance and murder (theguardian.com)
Five years ago, the science fiction writer Cory Doctorow published a short story whose plot might seem eerily similar to followers of the past few weeks’ news.

Science Fiction, Healthcare, Social Commentary, Current Events

16 points by ethagnawl 63 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Do you believe we are in a particularly chaotic time period? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Do you believe we are in a particularly chaotic time period?

Ask HN, Current Events, Social Trends

10 points by bloomingkales 73 days ago | 17 comments

Read the JD Vance Dossier (kenklippenstein.com)
We publish what others won’t. Subscribe to support our work and for updates on this breaking story.

Politics, Journalism, Current Events

14 points by 34679 148 days ago | 0 comments

Britain on the Brink (edwest.co.uk)

Politics, United Kingdom, Current Events

6 points by paulpauper 177 days ago | 0 comments

Will Britain Survive? (2022) (theatlantic.com)